Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colonie...

Engaging the past, the present, and the future, The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty shows how the lived experi...

Allan D. Cooper demonstrates how the resistance to slavery served to unveil the nature of freedom that made possible the abolition movement and ant...

The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaican...

The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaican...

In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play Toussaint Louverture: The Story o...

David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite laws pro...

Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema   From the East African and Red Sea c...

What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such histo...

What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such histo...

In his monumental On Justice and Rights, the Jesuit Luis de Molina (1535-1600) discussed the legal and ethical aspects of the Portuguese trade in A...

Abraham Lincoln is widely renowned for his stance on the emancipation of enslaved people in a period when America was sorely divided over the subje...